Picture this: Your average human being with a computer and an impressive collection of DVDs peers through his library and is suddenly discouraged. Discouraged because it is tedious to take them on a trip if he wanted to watch any. Discouraged because if he ever lost any of his DVDs, he doesn’t really have any backups, digital or hard copies. Mostly, this lack of a way to reclaim his media is the fault of the MPAA (I’m not touching them…yet), but also because it’s hard to find a good copying and ripping program out there. However, never fear. A little while back someone recommended “Magic DVD Ripper” to me, and I can’t say I’ve ever looked back. If you want a capable, cheap, simple-yet-effective program to take your DVDs from disc to hard drive, look no further.
I realize that the comment “look no further” is either terribly suitable or terribly ironic being placed right before the page break, but I couldn’t help the bad joke. Anyways, Magic DVD Ripper (and it’s mate, Magic DVD Copier) is a powerful program by Magic DVD Software that must be downloaded from the Internet; though, if you contact the company, you can acquire a CD. A free trial is available, and will allow you to rip 5 DVDs before prompting you for a registration key. The registration key for one of the two is $34.97, but both can be had for $49.97. I’ve been a happy user for over 6 months now, and it’s a great product.
I haven’t said anything about it before, unfortunately, but with my recent acquisiton of The Office - Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, I’ve been loving every second of it. It’s gone on my external drive, so hilarity won’t be far from anyone with a computer; most importantly, me. I’ve uploaded some pictures of the program in operation; here’s a note about the last picture-it’s quite an obtrusive graphical error, at least I thought so, but so far I haven’t found anything else wrong. I would have reviewed Magic DVD Copier, but I actually don’t own that piece of software right now, so, if you’re interested, you will have to check it out yourself. Either way, both programs look impressive, so you can’t go wrong.
Here’s the complete feature list from Magic’s site:
- Convert DVD to DivX or other AVI formats
- Convert DVD to WMV
- Convert DVD to mp4 (iPod and PSP formats)
- Convert DVD to VCD or SVCD
- Copy DVD movie to hard drive without any loss of quality
- Remove all the restrictions of DVD (CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS, PuppetLock)
- Copy main movie only or split DVD-9 into 2 DVD-5
- Compress DVD to fit on a 4.7 GB disc
- Very easy to use, just by one click
- High ripping speed and wonderful output quality
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The link to the main website can be found here.
aimersoft dvd ripper is also a good dvd ripping software for dvd to various video formats